I can’t build myself by beating somebody down.
BERNIE MACI took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
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I want to do something that people can really say, ‘Hey, man, that was good, I’m proud of you, I’m proud of that.’ ‘Pride’ and ‘Transformers’ and things like that.
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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I don’t need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don’t need any of that.
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I want to play a villain – I can’t wait to play a villain.
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You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.
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